There are good lawyers and bad lawyers. There are biased lawyers and unbiased lawyers. There are competent lawyers and incompetent lawyers. There are lawyers who cannot, or refuse to, see the forest for the trees. There are lawyers who twist the facts to suit their arguments and those who do not. And there are lawyers who selectively cite rules out of context and those who do not. And there are lawyers who have the cojones to honestly and objectively address both sides of an issue, rather than giving a shallow legal opinion based upon an incomplete and possibly erroneous set of facts. So, the fact that Bilas is a lawyer should not necessarily provide him with credibility, especially when he ignores issues involving morality, honesty, principle, and, most importantly, logic.
Sure. Nobody would deny the vast majority of what you just said. But none of that was really responsive to my post either.
To address the one thing you said that maybe was responsive to my post... "So, the fact that Bilas is a lawyer should not necessarily provide him with credibility, especially when he ignores issues involving morality, honesty, principle, and, most importantly, logic."
Bilas was commenting solely on the NCAA's jurisdiction to punish UNC for the fake classes scandal. Do you know what's not relevant to the question of the NCAA's jurisdiction? Morality, honesty, and principle. Do you know what's only moderately relevant to a question of jurisdiction? Logic.
Again, a lot of people here seem to be assuming that Bilas is defending UNC. He's not. He's doing one thing and one thing only from what I've seen. He's questioning whether the NCAA has jurisdiction to punish UNC over the fake classes scandal. His answer to that question in no way speaks to his thoughts on UNC, their athletic program, Dean Smith, Roy Williams, the fake classes scandal, or Carolina Blue.
To summarize, the real question Bilas is raising is whether the NCAA has the authority to punish UNC for fake classes when those fake classes benefited not just student athletes, but the student population as a whole. Honest, intelligent people can disagree on the answer to that question. But the way one answers that question is in no way informative of how that person feels about UNC's fake classes.